Everyone obsesses on the public page rank that Google calculates once a quarter or so, to the point of actively seeking links from high PR sites in order to increase their PR at the next update. That quarterly PR is known as toolbar PR, because that’s what shows in the Google toolbar for pages […]

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I was going to just ignore John Chow’s ebook and get on with posting new material. I’m not particularly fond of rehashing the current popular posts, and I have a backlog of original content to add to the blog.
But, when you write a blog about making money online, and one of the world’s most […]

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So you have a website where you hope to make money off visitors. Unless you’re making money with advertising, this usually means that your visitor is going to have to buy something. Your conversion rate is the ratio of people who actually buy versus the number of total visitors you have.
At a minimum, you […]

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At the risk of spamming my own blog (this is the fourth post that’ll show up in the email subscription feed for the day), I just ran across something that deserves mention.
One of the objections to Squidoo lenses has always been that you’re shaing Adsense revenue with everyone else. And, Adsense has restrictions about […]

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I’ve decided to join the ranks of those bloggers who emulate John Chow in providing backlinks for reviews. In fact, I’ll pretty much just duplicate John’s offer. I’d love to just copy and paste his rules below, but I suspect he has much better lawyers than I do. So here are the […]

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